#cornell woolrich

[filmnoirfoundation]

Released on this day in 1944, PHANTOM LADY. Which Cornell Woolrich adaptation is your favorite?

[transistoradio]

Painting — oil on canvas board — by Laurence Schwinger for Cornell Woolrich, I MARRIED A DEAD MAN (Ballantine, 1983).

[alexhorrorfilms]

Murder, Obliquely (Убийца или нет) (Убийство, косвенно) (Убийство по касательной) Алан Рікман та Альфонсо Куарон плідно співпрацювали вгозадо до «Гаррі Поттера» у стильному нуарі за оповіданнями Корнелла Вулріча

[bookmaven]

THE BRIDE WORE BLACK [aka BEWARE THE LADY] by Cornell Woolrich (New York: Pocket, 1949)

THE BRIDE WORE BLACK (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1940)

Although it was Woolrich's seventh published novel, it was the first in the noir/pulp style for which he would become known, his previous novels having been Jazz Age fiction about the wealthy and privileged.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

No abras nunca esa puerta (Carlos Hugo Christensen, 1952)

[gregorygalloway]

While You Were Sleeping premiered in Los Angeles, CA on 9 April 1995 before wider release 12 days later.

Fredric Lebow and Daniel Sullivan began work on the script in 1989, and sold it to Disney's Hollywood Pictures in 1994 (then titled "Coma Guy"), production was delayed when the writers were sued for appropriating "key elements" from Cornell Woolrich's 1948 novel, I Married a Dead Man and the 1950 film No Man of Her Own (Paramount Studios would release Mrs. Winterbourne, based on those two properties in 1996). Hollywood Pictures settled out of court, but production was once again in jeopardy when star Bill Pullman tried to quit the project after "the worst table read of all time."

While You Were Sleeping would go on to be a box office hit and the 13th highest-grossing film of the year.

[mariocki]

The Mark of the Whistler (The Marked Man, 1944)

"I suppose you're wondering how you're gonna die. Maybe you think I'm gonna shoot you, and it'll be over all of a sudden. But it's not gonna be like that, Nugent. I've had a lot of time to think what I was going to do when I found you. My father might as well have died because of what your old man did to him. It would have been better if he had. But only his mind died in prison. And I've arranged to do as much for you. Oh, you'll die, all right. But your mind will go first."

[nerds-yearbook]

Cloak and Dagger was officially released on August 10 1984. Though technically, it did have a special limited run double bill with the Last Starfighter starting on July 13th. It co-starred Henry Thomas (ET) as Davey Osborne and Dabbney Coleman as both his pilot father and as his imaginary friend super spy Jack Flack. Davey Osborne had a very vivid imagination and was a latch key kid since his father was a pilot so was gone a lot. One day he and his friend Kim Gardner (Christina Nigra) were put in deadly peril when he got a hold of an Atari game that contained secret information. Of course, adults believed this was just Davey's imagination getting away with him. Atari modified a game they were developing called Agent X to use for the movie and made it into Cloak & Dagger. The game mostly appeared in the arcade version form as the home game was sunk by the infamous video game market crash of the mid-80's. ("Cloak & Dagger" Movie, Event)